Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle

The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held from 30 to 31 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.^[1] This will be the fifteenth running of the event since the first in 1968.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing records were as follows.

Record	Time	Name	Nation	Event	Date	Notes
World	1:52.85	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	2023 Worlds	26 July 2023
Olympic	1:53.50	Ariarne Titmus	Australia	2020 Tokyo	28 July 2021

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).^[2][3]

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.^[2]

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.^[4]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European time (UTC+1)^[1]

Results

Heats

31 swimmers, representing 27 nations, entered the event.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
			Kaltra Meca	Albania
			Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia
			Ariarne Titmus	Australia
			Valentine Dumont	Belgium
			Maria Fernanda De Oliveira Da Silva Costa	Brazil
			Mary-Sophie Harvey	Canada
			Bingjie Li	China
			Junxuan Yang	China
			Andrea Becali	Cuba
			Barbora Seemanova	Czech Republic
			Lojine Abdalla Salah	Egypt
			Julia Mrozinski	Germany
			Siobhan Bernadette Haughey	Hong Kong
			Julimar Avila Mancia	Honduras
			Lilla Minna Abraham	Hungary
			Nikolett Padar	Hungary
			Dhinidhi Desinghu	India
			Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir	Iceland
			Lea Polonsky	Israel
			Mashael Meshari A Alayed	Saudi Arabia
			Ariana Southa Dirkzwager	Laos
			Enkhkhuslen Batbayar	Mongolia
			Duana Lama	Nepal
			Erika Fairweather	New Zealand
			Jehanara Nabi	Pakistan
			Rebecca-Aimee Diaconescu	Romania
			Aimee Canny	South Africa
			Maha Alshehhi	United Arab Emirates
			Erin Gemmell	United States
			Claire Weinstein	United States
			Maria Victoria Yegres Cottin	Venezuela

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Final

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